130 Report on the Farming of the 
'4th year. Wheat. — Drilled 9 inches apart. If weather permits it is 
rolled with Crosskill's largest clod-crusher, weighing 1^ 
tons, immediately after sowing, and again in spring. As 
soon as the wheat-crop is off the ground, one field of 20 
acres is ploughed and sown wilh common rye, broadcast, 
at the rate of 3:j bushels per acre, to be fed off in early 
spring with ewes and lambs; the land is then ploughed, 
and sown with white turnips. 
" The land on this portion is apt to tire of seeds, and every 
effort has been made to find substitutes. Peas, rape, and. 
tares have in turn been tried ; but no crop hitherto dis- 
covered is so likely to give a full plant of wheat as good 
seeds. 
" 2nd, or Middle portion. 
" 1st year. Swedes, or Hijhrid Turnips. — Sown on ridges 26 inches 
apart ; manured with 8 tons of fold-yard manure, 1 cwt. 
of Peruvian guano, and 24 bushels of Hull ashes per 
acre. One-third or one-half led off to fold-yards ; the 
rest consumed by sheep. 
" 2nd year. Barley. — Drilled 9 inches apart ; 10 pecks of seed per 
acre. 
" 3rd year. Seeds. — 21 lbs. white clover trefoil, perennial red, and 
parsley, broadcast. 
" 4th year. Wheat. — Drilled 9 inches apart ; 8 pecks of seed ; clod- 
crushed as above. 
" 5th year. White Turnips. — Drilled on flat 24 inches apart ; manured 
with 12 bushels of bones and 24 bushels of Hull ashes. 
One-fifth led home to fold-yards ; the rest consumed on 
the land by sheep. 
" 6th year. Oats. — 9 inches apart; 12 pecks of seed per acre. 
" 1th year. Seeds. — As above ; manured after oats are harvested with 
8 tons of fold-yard manure per acre. 
" 8th year. Wheat.— -Ks above. 
" ^rd, or Alluvial portion. 
" This, previous to being drained, was in ridge and furrow, the lands 
being 12 feet wide; and the system pursued was — 
1. Fallow, manured, 
2. Wheat, 
3. Beans, 
or, 
1. Fallow, manured, 
2. Wheat, 
3. Oats, 
" Within the last few years I have drained it, down thealternale fur- 
rows, with tiles and flats 20 inches deep (this being all that the outfall 
would allow), and the lands laid flat. The rotation now adopted is — 
